Comments on: Flickr Gallery in Wordpress

By: Steve Shaw

Steve Shaw — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:23:08 +0000

Personally I don’t have any problem using Flickr with my own blog – the photos really enhance each blog post – maybe they’ve improved since you’re original post.

By: Cole Camplese

Cole Camplese — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

D–

I can’t for the life of me get this plugin working. I’d love to figure it out, but my non-programming oriented brain is not allowing it to happen. Advice?

By: D'Arcy

D'Arcy — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

I’m eyeballs-deep in a project right now so can’t spend a lot of time, but IIRC, the big “gotcha” was in setting the permissions on the cache directory properly. Make sure it’s writable by the user running the webserver, or just make it writable to everyone – it’s just a cache directory

Then, there were some values to edit in the config file, but that was straightforward.

Bonus points if you fix the borked html – it was sadly invalid and looked poopy out of the box. I can send you my fixed copy if you like.

By: D'Arcy

D'Arcy — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Almost forgot – there was some fiddling with the .htaccess file to get it to have friendly URLs, and copying a gallery file into the root of my blog directory…

By: dnorman

dnorman — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Blythe – it's been a loooong time, so I'm a bit fuzzy on the exact reason. Something as vague as "FAlbum is better" probably won't help you

I think it had something to do with set integration, and offering a more complete replication of the Flickr pages within my blog. Or something like that.

Regardless, I've since switched my blog from WordPress to Drupal, so the point is moot (for me).

By: Blythe

Blythe — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Hey, I realize you posted this awhile ago, but I was just curious why you stopped using flickr gallery and switched to FAlbum. I'm having kind of a terrible time with FAlbum, and I'm looking for alternatives. Thanks!